Eastern box turtles carry both the armor that protects them from most predators and the potential for eternal wandering in search of home. Turtles found in the wild and relocated carelessly to ...

You’ve made it to the final part of the Tori the Turtle Amigurumi Tutorial in the Sweet Softies Creator Challenge! In Part 4, we’ll guide you through the finishing steps—assembling the body ...

Vehicles are one of the leading threats box turtles face in Missouri. The Conservation Department says thousands of box turtles are killed each year by vehicles. If you're helping a turtle make it ...

An eastern box turtle kept as a pet has been rehabilitated by a rescue in New Jersey and got her first chance to see the sun in decades this month Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter ...

It took 48 years for Rockalina to get a taste of earthworm. The eastern box turtle had lived since 1977 inside a New York home, never once venturing outside. Her nails curled into her feet ...

A young boy found Rockalina, a wild eastern box turtle, while playing near his New York home in 1977. His family took her in and for nearly 50 years, she stayed there. She remained on a slick ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering designating the eastern box turtle as the state reptile. The bill's inspiration came from a first-grade class that noticed Pennsylvania lacked a state reptile.

In June 2023, inspectors found four packages containing 40 eastern box turtles and intercepted them at an international mail facility in Torrance. He pleaded guilty to all four federal charges in ...

The packages in a California mail facility were labeled as almonds and chocolate cookies. But inside were dozens of turtles wrapped in socks to keep them from moving and alerting authorities.

The research team found that individual turtles were adjusting the timing of nesting based on sea temperature, laying eggs 6.47 days earlier for every 1°C increase in ocean temperature. They ...

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan (PIA) — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) here released five Asian box turtles back to their natural habitat in Sta. Margarita, Baggao, Cagayan as ...